orphan dirs and files with --delete

[Eric Whiting]

I still get the same error with --force --delete.

There needs to be a chmod on dir before the files and dir can be deleted.

eric




Tim Conway wrote:
> 
>           --force                 force deletion of directories even if
> not empty
> 
> SunOS 5.8           Last change: 26 Jan 2003                    7
> 
> User Commands                                            rsync(1)
> 
> That should do it.
> 
> Tim Conway
> Unix System Administration
> Contractor - IBM Global Services
> desk:3032734776
> conway at us.ibm.com
> 
> rsync (2.5.[67]) --delete fails on dirs with the w bit cleared. (example
> below)
> Rsync will sync a dir with w bit clear, but will not remove it with
> --delete.
> 
> This is not a big problem, but it will create situations where there are
> 'orphaned' files.
> 
> Has anyone else had this problem?
> 
> It looks like a change would be needed in robust_unlink (util.c). This
> function
> would have to do a chmod on dirs that are locked down before it does the
> unlink.
> (syncing as user root doesn't have this problem)
> 
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